[soc2008-general] Carcode : The Future

[Alan G Isaac]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Toby Donaldson apparently wrote:
> I think NetLogo is a good source of ideas, but 
> I definitely don't want carcode to be a full-blown 
> language/modelling system (I have used StarLogo in the 
> past, and I assuming NetLogo is very similar, although 
> I have not actually tried it). 

> But that said, some kind of graphical educational 
> modelling environment, where turtles and carcode and 
> similar stuff could be written as plug-in models, could be 
> interesting. 


Yes, that last is the idea.

Specifically, there is every reason to rely on the level
of abstraction represented by NetLogo except where there
is a pressing reason (e.g., performance or complexity)
to postpone it.  This avoids a lot of wheel reinventing.

NetLogo has a liberal license.  There is every reason
to use it as guide for such a project:
it functional, usable, and successful.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac